Collaborative book swap pages part two

Here are the remaining pages from the Arty-Oz "Woman" themed Collaborative book swap.
Sarah Faucett made the vintage looking "Lady Of The House" page at top and Niki Glover the blue and brown window lady at the bottom.The window opens to a picture of Niki's Nana aged 19yrs old

Micky Tandiono Choo made the Cuttlebug embossed metal window one at top and Rachel Greig the lovely brown and black butterfly lady at the bottom.Love that gorgeous brown lace at the side

Teresa Abajo made the vintage nurses "sisterhood" page at top and Nikki Blowers the red,gold and purple vintage bather by the sea page below it

Joanne Hughes did the 3D shoe page at top and Jane Norrish the green and pink toned butterfly lady page below it...ooohh yummy more tiny black German scrap trim on that one...I adore that stuff :o)

Lorri Lennox did the unique and a bit scary "Raven" page at top and Kathy Thompson the vintage nude in flowers page at bottom.The nude is elevated and flowers placed under and over her for a 3D look

Sue Gore made the inspiring artist Frida Khalo page at top and Sue Thiel the inchies page below it

Phillipa Barr made the tag and vellum lady page with lots of little sewn areas at the top and Kylie Mell the "beauty is not in the face" page below it

Debbie Larcombe made the glowing textured bg with reclining vintage lady page at the top and Kaeren Sutherland the textural "bathing beauties" page at the bottom

Every time I look in this book I see and feel more things I missed the other times.It is a true treasure and I shall take it to stamp camp next week with me to proudly show off to one and all.On a side note I dug out my old drawings today that I spoke of in my Simple Pleasure post recently.They have not fared too good and have lots of foxing(brown age spots) but I will take some photos and upload them soon.

Collaborative book swap part one

My on line drawing class has almost finished and I have had some time today to take photos of the pages done by other folks in the Arty-Oz 2008 Collaborative book swap.As there were 32 of us I think I shall upload the piccies in two separate posts.They wont be in any particular order except I'll show you the front cover first which was done by our hostess Teresa Abajo with some help of some other friends.The theme for the book was "Woman"

Ruth Spitzer did the textural green and blue one at the top and Debra Murray the dream alcohol ink page below it.

Julian Buttonshaw did this glowing digital collage sheer heaven transfer onto acrylic paint and crackle paste bg at top and Venessa Henry the sisters of the moon page below it complete with a hand made broom stick LOL

Rhonda Clayton made the touchy feely purple gold page at top and Joyce Hewton the textured one below it

Liz Aitkin made the Cuttlebug red and black "suburban queen" page at top and Margaret Byrne the Cuttlebug diamond embossed silver,black and red Marilyn page below it

Jen Crossley did the vintage lady,collage clock and black tree image page at top and Gail Smith the blue and gold vintage lady page below it...love that trim Gail has used!!!

Elaine Hannam made the corseted Femme page at top and Greta Young the pretty tan and pink vintage lady with key at the bottom

Christina made "window to a woman's soul" page at the top and Genevieve Payne the "girls just want to have fun" page at the bottom

TThat is about half the pages and I will try to get the other half up tomorrow.Everyone has done awesome pages and there are many with yummy textures and colours that the camera just doesn't pick up well.I think it has been the best and most rewarding swap I have so far done and I am glad to be apart of it with these other arty inspiring folks :o)

Arty Oz Collaborative book for 2008

OH MY GoSHIE...in the mail last week there was a little collaborative book from arty heaven filled with the art of over 30 other Woman in Oz.I was sssooo honoured to be in this book.We all had to make Woman themed pages and media and content was left up to us.I chose to do mine like the ones below.Vilene and tissue base.Sprayed that with colour wash sprays and then stamped in white gesso over that.I'm not sure why but I then painted each page with Golden soft gel medium and to my utter surprise the spray wash colours came to the surface and mingled over the gesso stamped areas to create a gorgeous flowing colourful background.

Cuttlebug die cut negative used as a stencil to add texture paste element scroll at top.Vintage image transfers were done using water slide decals or fabric treated with Inkjetset that I printed direct to material on using my inkjet printer.Gold highlights were done with Jo Sonja Pale Gold paint and ironed on bits of gold foil.Halo around image was done using metallic water soluble crayons.Lastly I hand sewed on some red seed beads around the images and added some words.I shall try to scan the other folks works soon for you all....such a rewarding swap!!

More Christmas At My House Pages

Two more Christmas At My House pages came on Friday but I didn't have a chance to upload them till now.This first one shows the front done by Gail Hart...I have adored Gail's style for many years and she has visited me here in the NT before.A really lovely lady who's artistic abilities and creativity I admire greatly.

and this is the back of Gail's page...wahoo she used Opals embossing enamel here to make a star ornament.Gail makes her own glass shapes

Lastly(for today)is a page by Loretta D'Onofrio.It does not show in the photo but it is all shimmery...she has used some shimmery colourful sprays on the background and the door and there is also a shimmery foil strip at the right.Loretta is another artist I admire greatly here in Oz :o)

Only three more pages to come and then I need to decorate the front and back of the book and put all the pages in.

Christmas At My House Swap

OMG some of my swap returns have come for a small private Christmas At My House swap I was in last month and they are all lovely and unique.There were only 12 of us in the swap so I shall upload them as they arrive and I am sure all others players have there's too...hate spoiling surprises LOL .Mine I shall upload last and THEN I shall get to how you put Opals embossing enamels thru a Cuttlebug *grin*
Okies here is the swap hostess's entry...the devine and sweet kind Mary Fenton.This is one side
of Mary's and I love the scrapped paint look of this

and here is Mary's other side...I am so hanging the Chrissy man on my tree this year

Next is Jenny Crossley's page...I adore this child image and don't you love that material strip at the side.

This cute one is Evelyne Poole's page and has a lovely image of a decoarted tree from her childhood

It opens to a story of how Evelyne celebrated Christmas as a child

Next is a touchy arty page from Elaine Hannam.I see something different everytime I look at this one...it has twisted wire,a transparency,stamping,muslin and so on...love it

Oh I do love the Chrissy lights here in this one by Anne Spiteri.The rectangular image has fine glass beads on it and the bear has flock to make him soft to touch

The last one that has been sent so far is from Amanda Cordingley and she has a cute piccie there of her kids that opens to tell what Christmas means to her.This is the front

and here is her back page

So far nearly all swappers have sent some little Christmas treasures as well with thier pages like tags,serviettes or whatever.We where all sent a front and back house shape to decorate too but as I was away and then sick I have not got to mine yet.I'll post more images as the other pages arrive....wouldn't it be great if we felt the way we do at Christmas all year round